Education's Baron von Munchausen
Willard Daggett claimed, among other things, that we were the only nation in the world that still thought that you teach biology and chemistry as separate courses.
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I've Been Nominated for Education Blogger of the Year -- Thank You Huffington Post!
Dan Brown | Posted 05.13.2008 | Media
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It's been my great pleasure to help to stir the pot about issues affecting students, teachers, and families in America.
Welcome to The New World DisOrders -- They Are Legion
Carol Maric | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
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If Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton can be relegated to the ranks of "Autism" these days, then The New World does seem perilously close to being upside down--as I have always suspected.
Memo to Democrats: Talk More About Education
Dan Brown | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
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McCain's threadbare talking points on education offer prime ammunition for Democrats to help define his candidacy as Bush's third term.
The Surge Against First Graders
Gary Stager | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
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When overseas colleagues criticize American foreign policy, I've been known to respond, "If you like Iraq, you'll love what the Bush administration has done to public education."
The Facebook: Another Product of a Broken System
Aaron Greenspan | Posted 05.07.2008 | Business
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As a Harvard student, technology and entrepreneurship weren't worthy of serious academic focus. The theft of Facebook by one of my classmates is just one example of larger systemic problems.
After the Primaries, A United Progressive America
Bill Scher | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
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The public is united on issues. The mandate for progressive change is being built. Conservative dead-enders are increasingly marginalized. Pity the poor candidate that can't deal with that reality.
No Child Left Behind Leaving 70% Of Our Children Behind
Steve Young | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
Think No Child Left Behind is working? It is if your definition on "No Child" equates to 70% of our children. War has nothing on our failing educat...
Out of the Mouths of Cry Babies
Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.05.2008 | Home
Out of the Mouths of Cry Babies There was, as you would expect, a lot of "oh woe is us" in the last week of April as the 25th anniversary of "A Natio...
College Town, Iraq
Lee Hudson Teslik | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
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I'm sitting in on a lecture at the public university in Sulaimani, one of the calmer cities in Iraqi Kurdistan, half an hour's drive from the Iran-Iraq border.
Exclusive -- Obama in 1995: "We Live in a Land of Strangers"
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
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An amazing moment in this just-unearthed interview, Obama discusses his belief that his own personal salvation is inseparable from the redemption of the whole nation.
Indoctrinate Your Children Before It's Too Late
Jenny Block | Posted 04.24.2008 | Living
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I think we should indoctrinate our children from the moment they are born. I think we should teach them that love is plentiful and that there are endless permutations that a family can take.
Opening the Schoolhouse: Undoing the World Bank's Damage
Robert Weissman | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business
For 30 years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have remade much of the developing world according to a market fundamentalist ideol...
The Unmaking of the Market
Sally Kohn | Posted 04.22.2008 | Business
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Why, with Wall Street collapsing around us, do we continue to privatizing everything that isn't nailed down?
My Conversation with Michael Bloomberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger
Charlie Rose | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
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Bloomberg and Schwarzenegger discuss what we need to understand about government's capacity to solve important people problems.
Top 23 Brainy Books
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 04.21.2008 | Living
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A decade after the so-called "Decade of the Brain" of the 90s, brain research has started to provide spectacular and thought-provoking findings.
Keeping Students Awake ... and More Productive ...
A. Siegel | Posted 04.20.2008 | Living
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Energy savings are not even the tip of the iceberg in real benefits, in measurable impact from "going green".
No YouTube Left Behind
William Fisher | Posted 04.19.2008 | Politics
The most discredited bromide in American civic life is: "Give the American people the facts, and they will make the right decisions." But who is giving them the facts? The short answer is nobody. And the result is a tragically uninformed electorate.
A Card-Sharp Thriller, Huh? You Get Paid for This?
Jeff Dorchen | Posted 04.17.2008 | Entertainment
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In the TV ad for the movie 21, the announcer says, as if it's a terrific, exciting piece of news, "Entertainment Weekly calls it 'a card-sharp thrille...
All Eyes on Pennsylvania: The Big Debate
Marc Lampkin | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
Americans understand that education is the crux of all the issues facing our country and they want to hear the candidates' long-term solutions for solving the crisis.
An Outrageous Education
Donna Foote | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics
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Walking through the prison-like gates of Locke High School in Watts last week it was hard not to summon up Dante's admonition to those on the threshold of hell: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here."
A New Way to Educate
Ariane de Bonvoisin | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics
If there was one place where I would love is to see dramatic change, it's in our schools -- how we treat and pay teachers, what kids are actually learning and how much individual attention each student receives.
Say What?! Bloomberg Compares Himself to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dan Brown | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
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No one slips and compares himself to Dr. King. This kind of comment betrays NYC Mayor Bloomberg's deeply out-of-touch relationship with the on-the-ground reality.
What Education Costs Us
Haim Watzman | Posted 04.03.2008 | Home
Poor kids get worse educations and graduate from high school at lower rates than rich kids. That's bad. What could be worse? In Israel, what's worse i...
We're a Nation At Risk (Happy April Fool's Day)
Gerald Bracey | Posted 04.01.2008 | Living
A Nation at Risk should have been published on April 1, 1983. It was a great April Fools Day joke on America.
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